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mummy blanket

mummy blanket

An item at Louvre

man (shroud, tripartite wig, forehead band, lotus flower, false beard, pierced ears, usekh necklace, crossed arms); beard missing Decoration: on shoulders; falcon (2, sun disk with uraeus) on chest; ram-headed scarab (sun disk, wings outstretched); goddess (2, kneeling, weeping, in front); god (2, standing, shroud) on arms; Osiris; Horus; Isis on belly; 1st register; ram-headed scarab; Isis; Nephthys; winged goddess (2, kneeling, protecting); falcon-headed god (seated, sun disk with uraeus); god (seated, sun disk with uraeus); 2nd register; Nut (winged goddess, wings outstretched, kneeling, modius) on legs; 1st register; right; offering incense; man (standing, in front); Osiris (seated); left; lustration; man (standing, holding, vase, in front); Sokar (falcon-headed god, shroud, seated, atef crown); 2nd register; right; offering scene; man (standing, in front); Thoth (?, standing, shroud, atef crown); goddess; left; worship scene; man (standing, in front); serpent-headed god (standing); Nephthys (standing, sign of Nephthys) 3rd register; right; Re-Horakhty (falcon, sun disk with uraeus, on, sign of gold); left; Ptah-Sokar-Osiris (falcon, sun disk with uraeus, on, sign of gold) 4th register; right; left; the four sons of Horus (standing on, sign neb) 5th register; Anubis (dog, lying, on, pedestal)


Department of Egyptian Antiquities

An exhibit at Louvre

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The collections of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities present the civilization that evolved on the banks of the Nile, from the end of Prehistory (around 4,000 BCE) to the Christian era (from the 4th century CE).